This thesis presents a Z-parameter based model to predict the substrate
noise coupling between two contacts in a heavily doped substrate for frequencies
less than 2 GHz. The empirical model is scalable with contact siz ...

Error correction codes (ECCs) have been widely used in communication systems and storage devices. Nowadays, the rapid development of integrated circuit technologies makes feasible the implementation of powerful ECCs such ...

As more features are being integrated into mobile platforms, the demand for
long battery life during standby mode has been increasing. Light load efficiency
becomes one of essential features in today's DC-DC converter. ...

As the demand for real-time information in engineering and health care systems keeps increasing, the need for wireless sensor nodes is also continuously increasing. As a result, the cost and effort involved in installing ...

Sequential supervised learning problems arise in many real applications. This dissertation focuses on two important research directions in sequential supervised learning: efficient training and feature induction.
In t ...

Time-domain data conversion has recently drawn increased research attention for its highly digital nature in favor of process technology scaling. Also, as the time information being carried by binary voltage, time-domain ...

The communication in MLS cross-domain environments faces many challenges. The three most important challenges are efficient key management, privacy preserving and covert channel. We propose an Efficient, Secure and Cover ...

The objective of this research is to demonstrate the feasibility of implementing electrically tunable on-chip inductors based on synthetic antiferromagnet (SAF) cores. This thin film magnetic core is made of a magnetic b ...

Researchers have hypothesized that if we could estimate the probability that
a fault in a code component will a cause a failure, we could use this estimate to
improve the fault-detection effectiveness of code-coverage- ...

Previous research has revealed gender differences that impact females’ willingness to adopt software features in end users’ programming environments. Since these features have separately been shown to help end users prob ...

Data converters are ubiquitous building blocks of a signal chain. The rapid increase in
communication and connectivity devices presents new avenues for pushing the state of
the art analog to digital converters. Techniq ...

Linear wireless sensor networks (LWSN) are special class of wireless sensor networks where sensor nodes are deployed in a straight line. Monitoring industrial pipelines, railroads, tunnels, power lines, and borders are a ...

Monte-Carlo planning algorithms such as UCT make decisions at each step by
intelligently expanding a single search tree given the available time and then
selecting the best root action. Recent work has provided evidenc ...

Acoustic scanned holography is a method of lensless photography
which uses sound waves to construct the hologram and light waves to
reconstruct the image. The receiving transducer scans a plane area
containing the sou ...

This paper examines how six online multiclass text classification algorithms perform in the domain of email tagging within the TaskTracer system. TaskTracer is a project-oriented user interface for the desktop knowledge ...

Software engineers often need help with discovering and learning how to use APIs. For example, software engineers who are starting to learn Java, and they want to implement a certain feature in a program, they might want ...